Re: [gedit-list] File encoding detection

[Noup <lucky13 mail telepac pt>]

Paolo Borelli wrote:

> Il giorno mer, 20/07/2005 alle 01.57 +0100, Noup ha scritto:
>  
>
> > I've been doing some research to find out how to detect the encoding of
> > a text file. Though, it appears that GEdit successfully detects the
> > encodings i use most for my files. So i would like to ask you, what
> > method are you exactly using to detect the encoding of a file?
> >
> >
> >    
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> Actually gedit doesn't do full encoding detection: it just tries in
> order utf-8, the current locale encoding and ISO-8859-15.
>
> Beside if a particular encoding has been specified when opening a file,
> the encoding is remembered when opening that file.
>
> Paolo
>
>  
Ok, i see... so the reason why it usually works for me is because my 
files are usually in utf8 or iso-8859-15 precisely.

Though, when GEdit is "trying", how does it check if the file is in utf8 
or iso-8859-15?


Pedro Castro.

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